A Rhetoric of Irony is a book about irony by American literary critic Wayne Booth. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent. In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities—ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic www.doorway.ru by: Irony in literature Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this Offer Count:
Wayne C. Booth. Wayne Clayson Booth (Febru in American Fork, Utah, - Octo in Chicago, Illinois) was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. His work followed largely from the Chicago. In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (). Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media. A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books) by Booth, Wayne C. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. Concerned that the increasingly sprawling figural territory covered by irony will render it a useless term, one of Wayne Booth’s key arguments in his Rhetoric of Irony is this: “[I]t is clear that a spate of uninterpretable [i.e. unstable] ironies has the same effect as providing no experience in irony at all” (). Booth focuses instead on relatively interpretable, or “stable,” ironies, taking as a given that “to achieve ironic communication is a worthwhile thing in itself. A rhetoric of irony by Booth, Wayne C. Publication date Topics Irony in literature Publisher Chicago: University of Chicago Press Collection.
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